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Well, I don't get any of those. Just because they're the 'most common', it doesn't mean that they're actually common, does it?
Security biz Websense has drawn up a list of the five most common spam subject lines. The nuisance list, based on the subject lines of the millions of spam messages blocked by the firm every day, highlights the danger of opening attachments or clicking dodgy links. The most commonly seen subject lines fall into the one of the …
The "most common" spams are probably the ones that are most likely to be caught by spam filters, and given that it is a spam filtering outfit that prepared the stats, it is probably the ones most often caught by them. If you actually use them to filter your spam, it is probably the spam you are least likely to receive.
Not even a single entry about untold billions worth of loot that just need your help in securing the monies? I'm surprised the recent upheavals in Egypt and Libya haven't results in Gaddafi's second cousin thrice removed contacting us personally to ask us to help move his ill gotten gains.
Disappointed
I get the refund processor.
This on cracked me up. You one the Scottish lottery for $50,000 USD .When did they start using USD in Scotland. Of course it's a phone number based in Spain attacked with a French physical address. guess that EU zone is really working out.
I also get your Canadabell is about to be suspended.
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...........it is to some extent understandable that people get caught. However, a very large amount of the time it is in fact very difficult to understand how in hell these scams work. No, I am not having a pop at "the great unwashed" or "chavs" or any other insulting characterisation of "others" for being (naturally) far less intelligent than yours truly. That is not my point at all. I genuinely do not understand how it is possible (sometimes) that these work. To give an example of what I mean. I work at a university, allegedly containing some of the most intelligent and well educated people in society. Recently a large number of employees received an e-mail purporting to come from Amazon and it has to be said it was pretty good - the resemblance to Amazon's advertising e-mails was very well done. There were however two things with that e-mail. Number one, it asked you to click on a link to go and make changes to your account at Amazon. Number two, many of those who received it were indeed Amazon customers but had *never* ordered anything from that company via their uni account and should of course realised that Amazon did not have that e-mail address. These two issues should naturally have ensured that virtually nobody in this "grove of academy" this repository of education and intelligence did anything so fucking stupid. Wrong! The number of individuals whose uni e-mail address was (as they should perfectly well have remembered/realised) was totally unknown to Amazon who not only believed that the e-mail was genuine but clicked on that link and provided account details was embarrassingly large and created some serious security problems. We are not talking about (alleged) "hoi polloi" we are talking about people who (allegedly) belong to the top twenty percent or so with regard to IQ.
WTF!